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From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>,
	Brian M Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] send-email: do defaults -> config -> getopt in that order
Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 14:04:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cTJFTkJ7N+ksrN-nHeLzNmCbDpVgLRBJZtMjTsKSE_ijA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190509114830.29647-4-avarab@gmail.com>

On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 7:48 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> Change the git-send-email command-line argument parsing and config
> reading code to parse those two in the right order. I.e. first we set
> our hardcoded defaults, then we read our config, and finally we read
> the command-line, with later sets overriding earlier sets.
>
> This fixes a bug introduced in e67a228cd8 ("send-email: automatically
> determine transfer-encoding", 2018-07-08). That change broke the broke

s/broke the broke/broke/

> the reading of sendmail.transferencoding because it wasn't careful to
> update our fragile code dealing with doing this in the previous
> "defaults -> getopt -> config" order..

s/\.\.$/./

> But as we can see from the history for this file doing it this way was
> never what we actually wanted, it just something we grew organically

s/it/it's/

> as of 5483c71d7a ("git-send-email: make options easier to configure.",
> 2007-06-27) and have been dealing with the fallout since, e.g. in
> 463b0ea22b ("send-email: Fix %config_path_settings handling",
> 2011-10-14).
>
> As can be seen in this change the only place where we actually want to
> do something clever is with the to/cc/bcc variables, where setting
> them on the command-line (or using --no-{to,cc,bcc}) should clear out
> values we grab from the config.
>
> All the rest are things where the command-line should simply override
> the config values, and by reading the config first the config code
> doesn't need all this "let's not set it was on the command-line"

ECANTPARSE "let's not set it was on the command-line"

> special-casing, as [1] shows we'd otherwise need to care about the
> difference between whether something was a default or present in
> config to fix the bug in e67a228cd8.
>
> 1. https://public-inbox.org/git/20190508105607.178244-2-gitster@pobox.com/
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-09 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-09 19:27 [PATCH 1/1] send-email: fix transferencoding config option Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-04-09 21:58 ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-04-09 23:39   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-04-10  3:48   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-10 20:40     ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-04-10 22:42       ` brian m. carlson
2019-05-08  8:18     ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2019-05-08  8:20       ` [PATCH 2/2] send-email: honor transferencoding config option again Junio C Hamano
2019-05-08 10:13       ` Re* [PATCH 1/1] send-email: fix transferencoding config option Junio C Hamano
2019-05-08 10:56         ` [PATCH v2 0/2] send-email: set xfer encoding correctly Junio C Hamano
2019-05-09 11:48           ` [PATCH v3 0/3] send-email: fix cli->config parsing crazyness Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-10 13:50             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-09 11:48           ` [PATCH v3 1/3] send-email: move the read_config() function above getopts Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-09 11:48           ` [PATCH v3 2/3] send-email: rename the @bcclist variable for consistency Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-09 11:48           ` [PATCH v3 3/3] send-email: do defaults -> config -> getopt in that order Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-09 18:04             ` Eric Sunshine [this message]
2019-05-13  8:46               ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-09 23:51             ` brian m. carlson
2019-05-13  8:50             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-13 21:13               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-16 22:59             ` Stephen Boyd
2019-05-16 23:13               ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-17  3:43                 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-17 19:55                   ` [PATCH 0/5] ab/send-email-transferencoding-fix-for-the-fix Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-17 19:55                   ` [PATCH 1/5] send-email: remove cargo-culted multi-patch pattern in tests Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-17 19:55                   ` [PATCH 2/5] send-email: fix broken transferEncoding tests Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-17 19:55                   ` [PATCH 3/5] send-email: document --no-[to|cc|bcc] Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-17 19:55                   ` [PATCH 4/5] send-email: fix regression in sendemail.identity parsing Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-19  1:29                     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-22 20:25                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-05-29  9:10                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-05-17 19:55                   ` [PATCH 5/5] send-email: remove support for deprecated sendemail.smtpssl Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-08 10:56         ` [PATCH v2 1/2] send-email: update the mechanism to set default configuration values Junio C Hamano
2019-05-08 10:56         ` [PATCH v2 2/2] send-email: honor transferencoding config option again Junio C Hamano
2019-05-08 21:24           ` Eric Sunshine
2019-05-09  6:47             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-08 23:12           ` brian m. carlson
2019-04-09 22:55 ` [PATCH 1/1] send-email: fix transferencoding config option brian m. carlson
2019-04-09 23:06   ` Heinrich Schuchardt

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